Evil Emperor Zun

Chapter 820 Nightmare haunted
"what……!!"

Chu Tianyao sat up suddenly, his whole body was still twitching like electricity, and his head and face were covered with cold sweat.

The door of the room was opened wide, and several garrisoned Nine Serenity envoys rushed in.

"Nine Venerables, are you alright?"

Chu Tianyao still sat stiffly, his eyes drifted away from the weak light for a while, and then slowly regained focus.

Without a master, without a life-threatening ghost, without blood covering his vision, he still stayed in his room. Everything just now was just a dream.

After escaping from Qingxin Martial Arts that day, perhaps because of the sequelae of serious injuries, he would always feel a dull pain in his throat, and would also have nightmares from time to time, in which he was strangled by someone and he couldn't breathe... But never Once, this time so real!
What's more, in the past, the master who was always kind and kind in the dream would become so hideous and terrifying.Those eyes full of resentment would still dangle in front of him until now.

Under the anxious questioning of the Nine Serene Envoys, Chu Tianyao took a few deep breaths silently before regaining his tone.

"It's okay, you all back down."

The envoys of the Nine Serenities looked at each other for a few moments, and then one of them bowed and said: "The Nine Venerables, then you should rest well, and the next step is to prepare for the primary election in the palace. There should be no accidents!"

Chu Tianyao waved his hand wearily, not even wanting to say a word.Silently wrapping the quilt tightly, let the door close, blocking the only light from outside.As a result, this room was once again imprisoned in despairing darkness.

These subordinates, they don't really care about themselves at all... Chu Tianyao thought to himself mockingly.They were just worried that if something happened to the Nine Venerables, they would be held accountable for dereliction of duty by their superiors, that's all.

It is precisely because I have experienced it that I know it.In the past at the Xuantian School, when I was sick, a group of brothers and sisters sat around the bed, talked with me, and brought me the medicinal porridge they cooked with their own hands... That is the real care, the real affection.The gleam in the eyes doesn't lie.It's completely different from those subordinates who only have interests and calculations in their eyes!
In the darkness, Chu Tianyao raised his hand and caressed the throat, staring at the empty quilt in front of him.

In the dream just now, the master was in this position, and he said that he wanted to kill himself...

After gasping for several breaths, Chu Tianyao's eyes were filled with mad hatred.

"Master, you can kill me, but you must not kill me for Ye Shuo!"

"Ye Shuo..." Chu Tianyao's heart was filled with grief and anger as he clenched his hands tightly on the quilt.He gritted his teeth and said the name, this...he didn't want to tear his body into pieces every day!
"No..." After talking to himself for a while, Chu Tianyao suddenly thought of something, "If Ye Shuo dies, he will meet Master underground, and they can be reunited. will snatch Master away from me..."

"Yes, so he can't die...he has to live and suffer! Yes...that's it..."

Nodding his head vigorously, affirming his conclusion, Chu Tianyao also seemed to be pulled out of a maze, and his body collapsed limply.Wiping the sweat off his head, he turned over and got out of bed.Step by step, he walked to the low cabinet not far away with difficulty, opened the drawer, skillfully dug out a medicine bottle, poured out a few pills, and then swallowed them all in one gulp without looking at them.

In the drawer, there is also a row of medicine bottles of the same style.I don't know when it started, every time he wakes up from a nightmare, he has to use these drugs to fall asleep again.Outsiders only saw the high spirits of the Nine Venerables, but no one understood that his spirit had already weakened to the extreme.It's like a string that is always tense and has reached the edge of breaking.

Stiffly walking back to the bed, shrank into the already cold quilt.Fumbling to take out the jade slip, his fingers couldn't help trembling, pressing on the screen with difficulty.

"Say a few words with me."

"Don't leave me alone."

"please."

Yan Xueying's departure seemed to have taken away his last spiritual pillar.Knowing that she would not come back, he still begged and sent her a message, like a drowning person trying to catch a piece of driftwood drifting away.

The light of the jade slip continued to flicker, and then due to a long period of inactivity, the light gradually became weaker until it turned into pitch blackness.

Chu Tianyao's thoughts also fell into a distant memory during this period of pale waiting——

The Xuantian School of that year.

There was a beautiful cream cake on the table, and five candles were burning vigorously.

"Tianyao, happy birthday!" Daoist Liaochen looked at him with a smile, "Come and make a wish?"

At that time, the five-year-old boy nodded and folded his palms earnestly: "My wish is to become the head of the Xuantian Sect like Master in the future! However, I don't want to be like him, With such a long beard, I want to be a handsome head!"

Daoist Liaochen laughed loudly when he heard this: "Haha, Tianyao, I heard Master say, 'Flying Dragon is in the sky', your future achievements will definitely not be limited to the Xuantian School. You have to look farther away what!"

Chu Tianyao blinked in confusion: "Master, is there a wider world outside of Xuantian Sect?"

Daoist Liao Chen's eyes were full of longing, and he patted his head lovingly: "Yes, the outside world is very big, waiting for you to explore!"

"Then why don't you explore, master?" Chu Tianyao asked "outspokenly".

Daoist Liao Chen's smile froze, then he sighed and stroked his long beard lightly: "Master is getting old! The future world belongs to you young people!"

Chu Tianyao shook his head vigorously, jumped off the chair, ran forward and pulled Daoist Chen's sleeve: "Master is not old! No matter where I go in the future, I will definitely take Master with me! Wherever Master is , is my home!"

Daoist Liaochen laughed heartily when he heard this: "Okay, okay, then I'll just wait for you to be successful in the future and bring Master to enjoy the blessings?"

Master...

In the wilderness, the little boy giggled and ran fast in front alone, turning his head from time to time and waving at Dao Chen behind him.

"Master, hurry up and catch up!"

In the suburbs, the little boy bounced around beside Daoist Chen, clumsily manipulating the kite in his hand.

"Master, look at my kite flying so high!"

On the training ground, the little boy was sweating profusely using a set of boxing techniques he had just practiced.From time to time, his eyes turned to Daoist Liaochen who was not far away, wanting him to see his most handsome appearance.

"Master!"

"Master!"

Familiar and distant scenes flashed before my eyes.In those scenes, there is always a soft child's voice calling out to Master kindly.

Gradually, the child's voice became clearer.The little boy in my memory is also growing up day by day.

"Master!" He was no longer as innocent and naughty as he was when he was a child, and the person who walked quickly was already a graceful young man facing the wind.Properly bowing and saluting, the exclamations of the female disciples could be heard not far away.

His life, his world, has always revolved around Master...

In the picture of the two, at some point, a third figure appeared.

That was Ye Shuo.

Master and Ye Shuo's figures are gradually fading away, and all the senior brothers are also going away with them.Chu Tianyao looked at them sadly, but he couldn't move at all, just like standing on a floating log, being rolled by the waves, he could only float against the current...

The screens broke one after another.

……

Chu Tianyao was still sitting alone in the dark, and the jade slip beside him was never lit up.

Master, and Master Uncle...

……

In his memory, although the master uncle was a grumpy person and he was strict with his disciples, but Chu Tianyao knew that in his heart, part of him was actually quite childish.

It was a sunny afternoon that day.As soon as Chu Tianyao stepped into Taoist Master Wuchen's room, he waved to himself happily.

"Tianyao, come here!"

In his hand, he held a bunch of strangely shaped balls of thread, his whole body was covered with wool, and there were two long needles in his arms. The whole picture looked quite nondescript.

Chu Tianyao walked over with some hesitation: "Master, are you...?"

Taoist Wuchen shook the ball of wool in his hand, showing a slightly embarrassed smile: "Old people are always busy, so I just thought, I wonder how many children you and Dingsha will have in the future, they are boys. I'm still a girl, thinking about it, I just want to make some small clothes for them. If I do this again at that time, it will be too late..."

"Tianyao, come over and have a look, which trick do you like?"

The corners of Chu Tianyao's mouth twitched, and he said with a dry smile, "Uncle, don't bother, as long as it's done by you, Dingsha and I will both like it."

"Disciple suddenly remembered that there is still homework for cultivation." As he spoke, he backed away slowly, and waited until he reached the door, and then gave a big gift in a grand manner: "Disciple, I will leave first!"

Through the crack of the covered door, he could still see the helpless and doting smiling face of the uncle.

……

"Master, uncle... don't you want to see me and Dingsha get married?" Curled up in the quilt, Chu Tianyao raised his hand with a wry smile, touching the darkness of nothingness, "Come back, we will be filial to you of……"

"We will kneel in front of you together, bow down to you, and invite you to drink your father-in-law's wine..."

"We will have a lot of children, running around the house, all wearing the little clothes you made..."

"When the weather is fine, we can take our children and fly kites in the suburbs together..."

"When the children grow up and start to practice, I will sing the bad face, and you will sing the bad face, because we are the most tacit understanding between master and student..."

"Now that I am capable, I can make you enjoy yourself, come back..."

"Come back, okay..."

As if he was also intoxicated by the imaginary picture, a rare sincere smile appeared on Chu Tianyao's face.If life can really be lived in such a simple way, how wonderful it would be...

Suddenly, the jade slip in his hand vibrated, the screen lit up, and there was a reminder of "a new message" on the top.

As if seeing a life-saving straw, Chu Tianyao grabbed the jade slip and pressed the read button.But his heart also turned cold at the same time.

Yan Xueying didn't reply him, it was just an advertising message.

"Congratulations on winning the lottery!..."

Before that, he also received a scam text message when he was insomnia.Perhaps the night alone was too difficult. In order to escape this loneliness, he took the initiative to reply and chatted enthusiastically with the liar.

As long as someone can say a few words with me, even if he is just a liar... that's fine.

But soon, perhaps seeing that he hadn't taken the bait for a long time, even the liar stopped talking to him.

Now, looking at the dimly lit jade slips, there are not many people left in the address book.Those, most of them are the colleagues of Jiuyoudian, or the subordinates who contacted him, and they are just the relationship between the superior and the subordinate.And can say a few words of intimate words to him, not even one can be found.

When swiping to one of the names, Chu Tianyao stopped, and his fingers trembled almost on the name.

He has already deleted all the former Xuantian Sect brothers.Only Dingsha... only Dingsha, he never deleted it.

Even though he knew that she would never take the initiative to contact him again, and it was impossible for him to contact her again, he still hoped to let her stay in his jade slip like this.It's as if... he still owns her.

The girl who was obedient to her back then has been pushed away by her own hands.All that was left between them was hatred.

"Jinsha, Xueying has left me too, I have nothing now, only you..."

Chu Tianyao smiled wryly, and slowly tilted his head, his face was pressed against the cold jade slip, and his other hand was raised at the same time, around his knees, and rested on the other end of the jade slip, as if hugging him in imaginary she.

"It's just you..."

All night long, he maintained this lonely posture.

***
Morning and evening alternate.

After the battle at Qingxin Martial Arts, Ye Shuo stayed temporarily.On the one hand, it is to get together with everyone, and on the other hand, it is also to take care of his injuries.

Although with the help of his second consciousness, he gained the upper hand in the battle, but after all, the opponents were two powerhouses at the Heaven-reaching Realm. Once the foreign aid was gone, the accumulated trauma immediately exploded in his body.

This time, although it was true that he was seriously injured, Ye Shuo's physical strength and soul strength were far beyond ordinary people after all.After recuperating for a period of time, his cultivation had returned to its peak.What's even more gratifying is that, due to his long-term accumulation and the comprehension gained in the battle, after he recovered from his injuries, Ye Shuo directly broke through to the second stage of Huaqi!

Originally, he wanted to leave immediately, find a quiet place to retreat and practice, and try to make a breakthrough before taking the assessment.Even if it doesn't work, the current skills must be fully stabilized.

But according to other disciples in the museum, in a few days, to celebrate the Tiangongmen, a large-scale lantern festival will be held in the city, and the scene is very lively. Please leave after attending.Ye Shuo thought to himself, there is no rush to cultivate in the next few days, so why spoil everyone's interest, so he agreed.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Ning Bufan ran over excitedly just after lunch.

"Brother Ye, can you help me tell Qingxin that tonight's Lantern Festival will be held in the west street of the city, see you soon."

"Are you going to confess to her?" Seeing Ning Bufan's shy smile, Ye Shuo's mind moved, and he exclaimed in surprise.

"Great, you will succeed!" Ye Shuo was also sincerely happy for him when he thought that his secret love for many years would finally be rewarded.

It seems nice to see friends getting married before leaving!

(End of this chapter)